Oh, THAT'S what that "helicopter ear" thing is! All this time I thought my Rosie was just being cute. I didn't realize she was flipping me off! That explains a bunch! Alfred, Merry Christmas! Keep your hoomin in his place! :)

Yes. Having time to reflect on what was happening to you probably was a little disconcerting. There were other people in the room with Slotin, apparently in close proximity. Any idea of what became of them?

Most especially so, given that he'd already watched his mate die the same way, less than a year earlier:

On August 21, 1945, Harry K. Daghlian, one of Slotin's close colleagues and a laboratory assistant, was performing a critical mass experiment when he accidentally dropped a heavy tungsten carbide brick onto a 6.2 kg delta phase plutonium bomb core.[13] The 24-year old Daghlian was irradiated with 510 rems (5.1 Sv) of neutron radiation.[14] As the young man spent the next 25 days in the hospital, slowly succumbing to radiation poisoning, Slotin spent many hours with him.